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All cases notified are visited by the Health Visitor as soon as
possible after the doctor or midwife has ceased to attend. Advice
is given with regard to the care, management, feeding and clothing
of the child, and also the general health and care of the mother.
Thereafter, periodic visits are made to the homes of infants
during the first two years of life, and, as far as possible, at wider
intervals during the next three years, up to the time when the
child comes under the observation of the School Medical Service.
The visits made by the Health Visitors during 1933 were
21,664.
Visits to infants under one year of age 8,255
Visits to children over one year of age 12,358
Visits to Tonsils and Adenoid cases 136
Visits to Ante-natal cases, first visits 287
Visits to Ante-natal cases, revisits 94
Visits to Foster Mothers 315
Special visits not included in the above group 219
21,664
The Work of the Health Visitors in the Homes of the
Borough.
The work of the Health Visitors includes the following:—
1. Visiting homes under the Notification of Births Act.
2. Home visiting of children up to 5 years of age.
3. Home visiting of pre-school children in regard to
defects.
4. Home visiting of foster children.
5. Home visiting in connection with Ante-natal Clinic
and expectant mothers.
6. Ante-natal Clinic for expectant mothers.
7. Infant Welfare Clinics for children up to 5 years of
age.
8. Special visiting of:—
(a) Still Births.
(b) Ophthalmic Neonatorum
(c) Puerperal Fever and
Pyrexia.
(d) Visits to Tonsils and
Adenoid cases.
(e) Pneumonia.
(f) Infantile Diarrhoea.
(g) Other special visits.